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=E4=BA=8E 2013=E5=B9=B403=E6=9C=8826=E6=97=A5 02:39, Paul B. Henson =E5=86=
=99=E9=81=93:
> Thanks much for the quick response and the offer of assistance. Would=20
> it be possible to have the information programmatically available such=20
> that kobs-ng (or some other application) could read/determine it=20
> itself either via a sysfs node like the previous driver or some other=20
> method to export the information to user space? A manually triggered=20
> debug log would remove the need to boot an older kernel to determine=20
> the information, but would still require a user to transcribe the=20
> information from the log to kobs-ng. If the sysfs node or other export=20
> mechanism was only available if a particular command line option was=20
> supplied to the kernel to avoid contaminating the environments of=20
> people not interested in such a feature that would be fine.=20
The latest kobs-ng uses the same method as the kernel to calculate the=20
necessary parameters.
It does not depend on the sysfs node any more. So do not worry about this=
.

You can download the latest kobs-ng for imx6q from freescale's=20
website(sorry, I do not know the weblink.)

thanks
Huang Shijie